A47576:1157
The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts
The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts : first, proving the abrogation of the old seventh-day Sabbath : secondly, that the Lord's-Day is of divine appointment : containing several sermons newly preached upon a special occasion, wherein are many new arguments not found in former authors / by Benjamin Keach.The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts : first, proving the abrogation of the old seventh-day Sabbath : secondly, that the Lord's-Day is of divine appointment : containing several sermons newly preach'd upon a special occasion, wherein are many new arguments not found in former authors / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by John Marshall, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. This shows that none of the ten Commandments, as given by Moses, are in force to Believers, or oblige the Gospel-Church, but only belonged to the Jewish Policy as formally delivered, Exod. 20. and tho the Moral Law given by Christ as Mediator, doth oblige us, yet the precise seventh Day being no Moral Precept, but only Judaical, is gone, it not being given forth anew in the Gospel, nor could be given with its old Sanction, viz. the Penalty of Death to be inflicted on such that break it, because the Gospel-Church is no Political Body or Civil State, they can't inflict Death on such ⟨p. 263⟩as transgress this, or other Precepts.
Answ. 1. This shews that none of the ten Commandments, as given by Moses, are in force to Believers, or oblige the Gospel-Church, but only belong'd to the Jewish Policy as formally deliver'd, Exod. 20. and tho the Moral Law given by Christ as Mediator, doth oblige us, yet the precise seventh Day being no Moral Precept, but only Judaical, is gone, it not being given forth anew in the Gospel, nor could be given with its old Sanction, viz. the Penalty of Death to be inflicted on such that break it, because the Gospel-Church is no Political Body or Civil State, they can't inflict Death on such ⟨p. 263⟩as transgress this, or other Precepts.
2. Nay, nor ought such to die that profane the holy Name of God, or disobey their Parents, or commit Adultery, &c. by any Law given by Christ in the Gospel*, those Temporal Punishments only belonged to the Mosaical Economy: many in the Gospel-Church, before called, were guilty of the gross breach of divers moral Precepts, yet were not to be put to death, Christ came not to take away Mens Lives, but to save them both from temporal and eternal Death.